97 Quotes by Robert Walser

Sevgili kardeşim şu anda bir hiçsin. Fakat genç iken insan zaten bir hiç olmalı çünkü hiç bir şey erkenden anlam kazanmak kadar yıkıcı olamaz.

Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

I had become an inward being, and I walked as in an inward world; everything outside me became a dream; what I had understood till now became unintelligible.

In fact, I love all repose and all that reposes, all thrift and moderation, and am in my inmost self, unfriendly toward any haste and agitation.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

A heaven opens when people are kind to one another.